I have a marathon file from which I want to print the names of the runners, who have made multiple runs. Something like:
M, 2:08:58.0, John Lukas, USA, 1997-07-25, Paris, France
F, 2:15:04:0, Abebbe ...

I'm trying to find a way to check inside a given directory for duplicate files (even with different names) and replace them with symlinks pointing to the first occurrence. I've tried with fdupes but ...

I have several directories containing a few hundred files in each.
Each directory contains files that are duplicated (i.e. have the same content) within the same directory, and/or are duplicated in ...

I have a bunch of gzipped text files. I am trying to remove duplicate files (using fdupes) but the problem is these files contain a line that has their timestamp in them, and the files are identical ...

Here's a nice teaser for a shell scripting guru:
Take a directory with several text files. Can be a few up to ~1000.
All files contain an identifier on a given line (always the same line).
Identify ...

I'm running Mac OSX and trying to use the command line to find the number of files I have with the same name.
I tried to use the following command:
find ~ -type f -name "*" -print | basename | sort ...

I want to move files from Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, et al to shared locations. This is for various reasons, including because I want to keep media in a central, shared place.
I want to ...

I am sometimes stuck in a situation where a script/command kept in Cron runs more than once because of some reasons (the first instance is not completed fully, the second instance of the same process ...

Is there a free and open source duplicate image finder for Linux based systems?
Finding exact duplicates (based on content, not file name) is sufficient for me, but the ability to find similar images ...

I'm looking for an easy way (a command or series of commands, probably involving find) to find duplicate files in two directories, and replace the files in one directory with hardlinks of the files in ...